BEC higher listening question paper (MLP version)

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Check your name, centre number and candidate number are on your answer sheet.. At the end of the test, hand in both this question paper and your answer sheet..

CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

0353/03

BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE Higher Listening

Sample Test

VISUALLY IMPAIRED

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Check your name, centre number and candidate number are on your answer sheet

Listen to the instructions before each part of the paper carefully

Answer all the questions

Write your answers on the separate answer sheet

At the end of the test, hand in both this question paper and your answer sheet

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

There are three parts to the test and you will hear each recording twice

Each question carries one mark

The CD will be paused from time to time to give you

time to read the questions, and to write and check your answers

Please note that you do not necessarily need to write an answer each time that the CD is paused during a

recording

PART ONE

QUESTIONS 1 – 12

You will hear the introduction to a seminar, called the

Business Master Class, about the use of Information

Technology in the workplace

For questions 1 – 12, complete the notes, using up to

THREE words or a number

You will hear the recording twice

THE BUSINESS MASTER CLASS

ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARTICIPANTS

DR SANGALLI

THE BUSINESS MASTER CLASS

Two problems for companies:

10 to establish new _

Two outcomes of session:

11 design your own _

12 take away documents containing actual

_

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PART TWO

QUESTIONS 13 – 22

You will hear five business people talking about trips they have recently been on

For each extract there are two tasks

Read Task One (overleaf)

TASK ONE - PURPOSE

For questions 13 – 17, choose from the list A – H the purpose of each trip For example, if you think the

purpose of Speaker 1’s trip was to hold job interviews, write B for question 13

13 Speaker 1

14 Speaker 2

15 Speaker 3

16 Speaker 4

TASK TWO - PROBLEM

For questions 18 – 22, choose from the list A – H the

problem each speaker had

18 Speaker 1

19 Speaker 2

PART THREE

QUESTIONS 23 – 30

You will hear part of a conversation between a

management consultant and the Human Resources

Manager of Jenkins, a company which manufactures

children’s clothing

For each question 23 – 30, choose the answer (A, B or C) which best fits according to what you hear

You will hear the recording twice

23 What is said about the ownership of Jenkins?

A The founder has sold the company to someone

else

B Jenkins has merged with another company

C There has been no change of ownership

24 What does the Human Resources Manager see as the

main external threat to Jenkins?

A Their retailers are becoming less willing to pay

their prices

B Consumers are buying more top-of-the-range

children’s clothes

C More and more companies are producing

children’s clothes

25 The Human Resources Manager sees the company’s

main strength as the fact that

A it has several long-term contracts

B it makes products of high quality

C its distribution system is efficient

26 The Human Resources Manager believes that

Jenkins’s main weakness at present is that

A the machinery is inadequate for current

requirements

B the management style is out of line with modern

demands

C the relations between management and workers

are poor

27 According to the Human Resources Manager, why do

many machinists choose to leave?

A They think that they can get better paid work

elsewhere

B They feel that too much is expected of them

C They lack confidence in the company’s future

28 When working to produce a batch of clothes

29 What change has been made to the range of goods?

A A smaller number of different items is produced

B Each item is now made in smaller quantities

C Fewer new styles are introduced each year

30 What is said about the machinists?

A More of their work is falling below the required

standard

B Some of them are earning less than they used to

C They have to spend longer learning to operate

new machines

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